Sunday, June 15, 2008

Mama Don't Allow

Check out q pheevr and commenters' linguistic version of "Mama Don't Allow" over at A Roguish Chrestomathy. Here are a few of the many verses compiled so far:
Mama don't allow no pseudo-cleftin' round here.
No, Mama don't allow no pseudo-cleftin' round here.
Well, we don't care what what Mama don't allow is;
Gonna form pseudo-clefts for hours and hours.
Mama don't allow no pseudo-cleftin' round here.

Mama don't allow no topicalization 'round here.
No, Mama don't allow no topicalization 'round here.
The things Mama don't allow, we disregard.
Topicalization, we'll push it, hard.
Mama don't allow no topicalization 'round here.

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